Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-25

ment. One time, returning from the west,
1 very easily got on the locomotive while
passing over the plains, and talked with
the engineer; but, coming on toward the
Allegheny mountains, thought 1 would
like to sit on the locomotive as it
came down from the mountains amidst
that NEST wonderful scenery on this con-
tinept. l asked the engineer If l might
ride, but he courteously denied me, for
there the grade is so steep, and SO wind
ing, and so perilous, that he must not
have any one on the locomotive VITO may
divert his attention when eye, and hand,
and foot, and brain must be concentered,
ready for the most sudden emergency.
Well, nv frienc s, life is SO steep, and so
perilous, and so exposed to sudden sur
prises, that none but the Lord Almighty
can guide and engineer it, and our disaS-
tiers come from the fact that we want to
get up and help the Lord to manage the
train. Keep off the engine! Be willing
to let God pull you where He wants 10
pull you. You have no right for an in
slant TO surrender your sanity ard man
hood as David surrendered his. PGtyour
trust in God, and He will take you
through and over the mountains. very
much suspect that all the successful
enterprises that were ever carried on, and
all the successful lives that have ever been
lived, have been fully surrendered to God
When the girl Victoria was awakened in
the night, and told thet the throne of
Great Britain was hers, she said 10 the
prelate informing her: az ask your
players" and then and there they knelt
down and prayed. Do you wonder that
though since that time all the thrones OF
Europe have fallen or been fearfully
shaken, hers stands as firm as the day she
ascended it; and in every couatry under
the sun, wherever an Englishman hears
that name pronounced, he feels like waving
his hat and crying: "God save the
Oueen!" That man and that woman who
put their trust in God, will go through in
triumph; while those who attempt to
gather under their own supervision the
intricate and elaborate affairs of tAeir
life are miserably playing the fool. l
stood on the beach looking off upon the
sea and there was strong wind blowing,
and | noticed that some of the vessels
were going that way, and other vessels
were going another way. | said to N.Y.
self: Chow is it that the same wind sends
ore vessel in one direction and another
vessel in another direction?" | found out
by looking, that it was the different way
they had the sails set. And so does
trouble come on this world. Some men
it drives into the haTbor Of heaven, and
other men it drives on the rocks. 1t de-
ponds on the way you have your sails set.
All the Atlantic and Pacific oceans OF
surging sorrow can not sink soul that
has asked for Gods pilotage. The diff
Guilty is, that when we have mi-fortunes
of any kind we put them in Gods hands
and they stay there but little while,
and then we go and get them again and
bring them back vessel comes in
from foreign port. As it comes near the
barbor 1t sees pilot floating about. 1t
halls the pilot. The pilot comes on
board and he says: "NOw, captain, You
have had stormy passage. Go down
and sleep and l will take the vessel into
New York harbor." After while the
ca plain begins to think; sam | right 10
trusting this vessel 10 that pilot? guess
III 20 up and see" So he comes to the
pilot and says: "Don't you see that
rock? Don't you see those heedlands?
You will wreck the ship Let me lay
hold Of the helm for while for myself,
and then I'll trust to you" The pilot be-
comes angry and says: 81 will either
lake care of this ship or not. II you want
to, will get into my yawl and go
ashore or back 70 my boat" Now we
say to the Lord: 80, God, take my life,
AXE my all, in Thy keeping! Be Thou
ny guide; be Thou my pilot" We go
along for little while, and suddenly
wake up, and say: "Things are going all
wrong. 0, Lord, we are driving on these !
'ocks, and Thou art G. ing to let US be |
Cd says: "You go and |
est; will take charge of this vessel, and |
AXE it into the harbor." 1t is Gods |
business to comfort, and it is our bust
less to be comforted. Herbert, the !
.reat thinker, philosophical about him
elf, philosophical about this world, |
about everything, then in
lis dying moments asked that only one |
word might be cut upon his tombstone, !
md that word Notwithstanding |
lnhappy-descriptiv of the state Of the |
ives and of the deaths of those who take |
heir case out of the hand of God. The
,nly appropriate inscription for theiI .
hall, and their equipage, and !
heir grave, and the wall of their eternal !
Prison Observation-Disclosures In /
irooliDg, moral idiocy, they are scra7
ling at the door OF their happiness,
which never opens: miserabiy playing
he fcol.
Again: l remark that all those persons
LAY the fool, as certainly did this man
If the text, who allow the technicalities
# religion to stop their salvation. David
vas wise about great many things, but
lis cuttings-up in the text for a little
While eclipsed his character. And l
now wise men and great men, compe-
emit for all other stations, who are act
ng silly and foolish part in regard to
he technicalities of religion. They ask
is some questions which we cannot an
wer categorically, and so they burst
nto broad guffaw, as though it is OF
ny more interest to US than it ought to
re to them. About the AtOnement, sbou.
iod's DEGREES, about mans destiny, they
SIX great many questions which
We cannot answer, and so they
eride US, as though we could not
SIX them a thousand questions that
hey can not answer, about their eyes,
bout their ears, about their finger nails,
bout everything. A fool can ask
uestion that wise man cannot answer.
}, you caVlllnS men! y, you profound
len? o, you learned men, do please adj
nit something! You have 8 soul? Yes.
Will it live forever? Yes. Where? You
sy that Jesus Christ is not Divine Sa-
Tor. Who is he? Where Will you go
fter you leave your law books, and your
MEDICAL prescriptions, and your club
DOM, and your newspaper oftice-where
will you go to? Your body will be SIX
eet under ground. Where will your
oul be? The black coat Will be off, the
hroud on. Those spectacles will be re-
loved from your vision, for the sod Will
ress your eye-lids. Have you any idea
nat an earthly almanac describes the